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Baltimore Gun Club
Series · 3 books · 1865-1889

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#1

From the Earth to the Moon

1865

Verne's 1865 tale of a trip to the moon is (as you'd expect from Verne) great fun, even if bits of it now seem, in retrospect, a little strange. Our rocket ship gets shot out of a cannon? To the moon? Goodness! But in other ways it's full of eerie bits of business that turned out to be very near reality: he had the cost, when you adjust for inflation, almost exactly right. There are other similarities, too. Verne's cannon was named the Columbiad; the Apollo 11 command module was named Columbia. Apollo 11 had a three-person crew, just as Verne's did; and both blasted off from the American state of Florida. Even the return to earth happened in more-or-less the same place. Coincidence—or fact!? We say you'll have to read this story yourself to judge.
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Round the Moon

1865

In this sequel to From the Earth to the Moon, Barbicane, Ardan, and Nicholl have decided to take a trip around the moon. But first they have to get to the moon from Earth. Will their trip succeed as they attempt to dodge asteroids and realize that the scientists on Earth have miscalculated their trajectory towards the moon?
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The Purchase of the North Pole

1889

Millions have been enthralled by Jule's Verne's story of the Gun Club and their shot to the moon. Here is a sequel to this world-famous novel - another exploit of the space-conquerors even more fantastic in scope. THE PURCHASE OF THE NORTH POLE is the account of a super-scientific exploit designed to change the face of the world itself, melt the poles, cool the tropics, and make Earth a terrestrial heaven. Ace Books presents the first new edition in many decades of this rare Verne novel - an exciting classic science-fiction adventure in space engineering.

Author

Jules Verne
Jules Verne
Author · 146 books

Novels of French writer Jules Gabriel Verne, considered the founder of modern science fiction, include Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864) and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873). This author who pioneered the genre. People best know him for Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870). Verne wrote about space, air, and underwater travel before people invented navigable aircraft and practical submarines and devised any means of spacecraft. He ranks behind Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie as the second most translated author of all time. People made his prominent films. People often refer to Verne alongside Herbert George Wells as the "father of science fiction." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules\_V...

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